OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The H4-Index of Quaternary Science Reviews is 29. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Climate-controlled distribution of erosion over the Himalaya in the late Quaternary: Evidence from Sr-Nd isotope variability in paleo-Yamuna channel sediments	71
Revisiting the paleoenvironmental reconstruction of the Orce sites and the early Homo habitats in western Europe. A response to Palmqvist et al. (2022)	59
Editorial Board	50
Long-term Holocene warming trend in Southern China revealed by corrected pollen data	46
Comparison of Holocene temperature reconstructions based on GISP2 multiple-gas-isotope measurements	43
A Holocene tephrochronological framework for Finland	42
Late-Holocene sea levels from vermetids and barnacles at Ponta do Papagaio, 27° 50′S latitude and a comparison with other sectors of southern Brazil	41
Human-environment interactions in the Mesolithic – The case of site Paliwodzizna 29, a lakeside site in central Poland	39
RETRACTED: Delayed Western Gotland Basin (Baltic Sea) ventilation in response to the onset of a Mid-Holocene climate oscillation	39
Stable carbon isotopes and bulk-sediment geochemistry as indicators of relative sea-level change in tidal marshes, mangroves and isolation basins: Application and developments	37
Weak precipitation δ2H response to large Holocene hydroclimate changes in eastern North America	36
Large-scale climatic drivers of bison distribution and abundance in North America since the Last Glacial Maximum	36
Holocene biome reconstruction on the Chinese loess plateau based on pollen	35
Geochemical relationships between shells of the gastropod Gyraulus convexiusculus and modern water bodies on the Tibetan Plateau, and their paleoenvironmental significance	34
Evolution of Indian monsoon precipitation and vegetation dynamics in the Bay of Bengal region since the last glacial period	34
Formation conditions of coastal palaeolakes and associated abiotic aragonite deposition in the eastern Mediterranean during the upper Pleistocene	33
Salt and pastoralism in the Protohistory of the Veneto	33
Passage and removal of the Amundsen Gulf Ice Stream, NW Laurentide Ice Sheet, recorded by the glacial and sea level history of southern Banks Island, Arctic Canada	32
Environmental magnetism of late Holocene stalagmites from semi-arid karst in southern Australia	32
Nature of the beast? Complex drivers of prey choice, competition and resilience in Pleistocene wolves (Canis lupus L., 1754)	32
Loess facies analysis and chronology to reconstruct morpho-sedimentary and palaeoclimatic evolution: A case study from the Belgian-Dutch Maas valley	31
Provenance of Quaternary aeolian silts in western China and its spatial difference with source of the Yellow River sediments	31
Human consumption of carnivorans during Prehistory. The case of the Iberian Peninsula	31
Chronology and paleoclimatic context of hominin occupations in the Fenhe River Basin of northern China during the middle to Late Pleistocene	31
Climate change during the Holocene in South Asia: A review study of Pakistan	30

Orbital-scale vegetation-ocean-atmosphere linkages in western Japan during the last 550 ka based on a pollen record from the IODP site U1427 in the Japan Sea	30
Landscape evolution of the Bolivian Amazon controlled by uplift events dated 13,000, 10,000 and 6000 cal yr BP	30
Distal ash fall from the mid-Holocene eruption of Mount Hudson (H2) discovered in the Falkland Islands: New possibilities for Southern Hemisphere archive synchronisation	30
Sedimentary stratigraphy and provenance off Dronning Maud Land (East Antarctica) during the mid-Pleistocene transition: Implications for paleoclimate and ice dynamics	29
Distal tephras along the SE European margin date powerful explosive eruptions from the Elbrus volcanic center (Greater Caucasus)	29
Stalagmite multi-proxy records of weak Asian summer monsoon interval during Termination III as an analogue to Termination I	29
Deglacial and Holocene sediment dynamics and provenances off Lancaster Sound: Implications for paleoenvironmental conditions in northern Baffin Bay	29